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Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan Farina.
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Farina, Jonathan, 1979-
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English
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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xxii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
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PR868.L35 F37 2017
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English fiction
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Language and languages in literature
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English language
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Characters and characteristics in literature
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19th century
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Series
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 107.
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"Everyday Words is an original and innovative study of the stylistic tics of canonical novelists including Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray and Eliot. Jonathan Farina shows how ordinary locutions such as 'a decided turn', 'as if', and 'that sort of thing' condense nineteenth-century manners, tacit aesthetics and assumptions about what counts as knowledge. Writers recognized these recurrent 'everyday words' as signatures of 'character'. Attending to them reveals how many of the fundamental forms of characterizing fictional characters also turn out to be forms of characterizing objects, natural phenomena and inanimate, abstract things, like physical laws, the economy and legal practice. Ultimately, this book revises what 'character' meant to nineteenth-century Britons by respecting the overlapping, transdisciplinary connotations of the category"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-280) and index.
Contents
Darwin's view from Todgers's: 'A decided turn' for character and common words
Inductive 'attentions': Jane Austen in 'particular' and in 'general'
'Our skeptical as if': conditional analogy and the comportment of Victorian prose
'Something' in the way realism moves: Middlemarch and oblique character references
'Whoever explains a 'but'': tact and friction in Trollope's reparative fiction.
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ISBN
9781107181632 (hardback)
1107181631 (hardback)
LCCN
2017020502
OCLC
987426245
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